Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB
Sy Ali
sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Sat Apr 28 23:41:28 UTC 2007
On 4/28/07, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> In effect, it's a limitation when running MS-DOS-style applications on
> Windows (and that fits; MS-DOS was unaware of the existence of Win32
> as it predates it).
I read it differently.. as it seems to read that it is a problem for
anyone who writes with one codebase which is to be deployed broadly
without any special vista-specific tweaks.
Yes, old software may not generally require more than 32MB of memory..
but some of it sure does.
> It's not a restriction for apps you might deploy using Cygwin; Cygwin
> provides a POSIX-y layer on top of Win32, in which case the
> restriction may be easily inferred NOT to apply.
The author of that article specifically cites cygwin as a non-solution
because he requires a set of programming features which aren't
provided within that environment. The type of stuff the author is
working on is pretty neat. If you're into that math stuff. =)
> It may well be a relevant restriction to things like bootloaders, but
> anyone that builds a bootloader requiring 32MB of memory deserves any
> trouble they get into :-).
hah.
I'm sure grub has that on the drawing board somewhere. ;)
The article made me laugh to learn of such nonsense as not having a
fullscreen 'dos' window anymore. Sigh..
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